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Rubbish cook books

Mummycat

I love to cook and have quite a few recipe books, only one of them had a recipe for either flakey or puff pastry and I could find no recipe for rough puff pastry. Several of the books had recipes needing puff pastry, but they all said "shop bought", I don't want to buy it ready made, it's mostly horrible and expensive too, especially in larger quantities, if you can buy it in large quantities, most packs would barely be enough for a couple of pasties.

I get really fed up of recipe books that don't tell you the basics, I might only make puff or flakey pastry once or twice a year so I don't remember the recipes, but why is it so difficult?

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  • I think I've got my grandma's copy of The Glasgow Cookery Book that she must have used after leaving school. Saying that, my mum always said that her mother was 'not a cook'. She did a decent roast beef, a good scotch broth, and her shortbread was excellent, but I think that was all she was taught to do at her fancy girls boarding school lol.

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  • I think I've got my grandma's copy of The Glasgow Cookery Book that she must have used after leaving school. Saying that, my mum always said that her mother was 'not a cook'. She did a decent roast beef, a good scotch broth, and her shortbread was excellent, but I think that was all she was taught to do at her fancy girls boarding school lol.

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